Southern Alamance set for Hall of Fame induction

Timmie Morrow, Julie Isley O’Keefe and Jimmy Teague along with the 1988 state-champion baseball team comprise the induction class.

Morrow, a member of the Class of 1988, earned 11 varsity letters while participating in baseball, football, basketball and track and field.

Morrow was drafted in the second round of the 1988 baseball draft by the Texas Rangers. He rose as high as Class AAA. He lives in Orlando, Fla.

O’Keefe is a 2000 graduate, competing in tennis, basketball, soccer and track and field. She went on to play soccer for Lenoir-Rhyne and later worked for the Burlington Soccer Academy. She works at a soccer club in Illinois.

Teague, who graduated in 1976, has been a successful high school football coach. After serving as an assistant coach at Cummings High School, he has been a head coach at Eastern Alamance, Charlotte Garinger, Reidsville and George Washington in Danville, Va. Though he went to Greensboro College as an assistant coach, he’s back as coach at Reidsville. He has four state championships as a coach.

The 1988 Southern Alamance baseball team posted a 26-0 record to produce the second state championship in school history.